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« Reply #60 on: November 06, 2005, 11:06:11 AM »

hi vixmom!
to answer a question of yours from the other day, I have a collection called The Best of the Bonzos on two LPs. Quite enjoyable.

Does it include  "The Intro and the Outro"  and "Ali Baba's Camel" ?

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« Reply #61 on: November 06, 2005, 11:06:39 AM »

Girl Scout Cookies!  I'm there!
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« Reply #62 on: November 06, 2005, 11:09:11 AM »

I found the dialogue inane in the most recent STAR WARS. And forced in a way it wasn't in the earlier movies. Whether his motivation was clear or not, Hayden Christensen could not pull of the gravitas needed for Darth Vader.

I didn't see the new Batman movie.
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« Reply #63 on: November 06, 2005, 11:10:20 AM »

Good Afternoon!

Back from brunch with DRs TPunk and Rodzinski.  We all had very hearty meals, and are still quite full.  How full you may ask?  Well...  On the walk back to the apartment, we stopped into three bakeries to ponder dessert...  And that's all we did, ponder.  Not a crumb was tasted!  Now that's FULL!

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« Reply #64 on: November 06, 2005, 11:12:06 AM »

I think it has both of those songs. Definitely "The intro..." They put a new song on there at the time it was released (mid-70s?) that often runs through my mind:

Cannibal Chiefs chew Camembert Cheese 'cause chewing keeps them cheeky
Big Fat Fred fixed fur to his head 'cause he thinks fur makes him freaky

Benjamin Bland and his bugle band blow the blues bi-weekly
How many pies can a porpoise poise on purpose if she pleases?
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« Reply #65 on: November 06, 2005, 11:16:27 AM »

Well, I need to finish packing up my stuff and head down to Penn Station.  However, I need to take make a stop at my "old" place to pick up some stuff, and dig out a copy of a contract I've been trying to track down. "Oh, that's right, it's in that box."

Another big Thank You to Tom and Antonia for hosting me this past week.  And it was nice spending time with Walty and Kilbot too - and they get to have their room back now too!  :)

Until I'm back in Fairfax later tonight...

Laters...
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« Reply #66 on: November 06, 2005, 11:18:06 AM »

Girl Scout Cookies!  I'm there!

and how many cases can we put you down for? ;D
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« Reply #67 on: November 06, 2005, 11:19:36 AM »

Ok I better head to the store before all the "good meat" is gone


~~~Travel Vibes~~~ to Jose
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« Reply #68 on: November 06, 2005, 11:26:44 AM »

I think the dialogue in all the prequels (as well as the original trilogy) is done the way it is on purpose (I've read that Lucas basically states that on the commentary track on Sith, but I haven't listened to that, and probably won't).  I don't love the performance of Hayden Christensen, but I feel that way about most actors today - all victims of what I call "whispered" acting, which is very prevalent today, almost to the point of incomprehensibility.
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« Reply #69 on: November 06, 2005, 11:35:43 AM »

Ok I better head to the store before all the "good meat" is gone


Where, oh, where are DRs TCB and Jose when I need them?
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« Reply #70 on: November 06, 2005, 11:37:00 AM »

I think the dialogue in all the prequels (as well as the original trilogy) is done the way it is on purpose (I've read that Lucas basically states that on the commentary track on Sith, but I haven't listened to that, and probably won't).  I don't love the performance of Hayden Christensen, but I feel that way about most actors today - all victims of what I call "whispered" acting, which is very prevalent today, almost to the point of incomprehensibility.

The only dialogue that drives me mad is the faux-German grammar of Yoda's character.  The keyboard I will leave now.
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« Reply #71 on: November 06, 2005, 12:16:28 PM »

Where, oh, where are DRs TCB and Jose when I need them?

It's Sunday, Lar, I'm trying to show restraint.
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« Reply #72 on: November 06, 2005, 12:36:32 PM »

It's Sunday, Lar, I'm trying to show restraint.

And are you succeeding?
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« Reply #73 on: November 06, 2005, 12:48:02 PM »

Never fear TCB - It's not Sunday here. Go for it.
(Or alternatively,watch 1900)
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« Reply #74 on: November 06, 2005, 12:50:59 PM »

DP Colin and I watched the Simon Rattle conducted  "Wonderful Town" last night. What wonderful voices. I don't really care that much for "Wonderful Town" or "On the Town" but the sound of the singers was  wonderful - as was the diction.
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« Reply #75 on: November 06, 2005, 01:34:01 PM »

Had Popeye's for lunch - quite good, but now I am very fulliscious.
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« Reply #76 on: November 06, 2005, 01:43:10 PM »

Does anyone know how long Girl Scout cookies can be frozen? I just found a few boxes in my freezer...guess it won't hurt to thaw them and see how they are
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« Reply #77 on: November 06, 2005, 01:56:21 PM »

Cillaliz, if they're frozen, they're still good...at least, that's my theory.  Go for it! ;)
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« Reply #78 on: November 06, 2005, 02:02:20 PM »

Anakin's switch to the Dark Side was one of the things that surprised and delighted mke most about STAR WARS III. Done for a noble if misguided reason, it gave him a bit more honor to his eventual villainy. And, the ironic switch regarding HER death in childbirth was another nice surprise the film afforded.

Geez, I don't know who these dotty folks are who are writing these opinions, but are they ever dense!
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« Reply #79 on: November 06, 2005, 02:06:07 PM »

I pulled MURDER, SHE SAID off the shelf and enjoyed it this afternoon. Warners promised the four MISS MARPLE films in a set this year, but it didn't happen. THE THIN MAN set was a BIG seller, so maybe they held it back to offer it as a BIG mystery set for 2006.

MY TCM homemade DVDs will do me just fine until they get around to releasing them.
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« Reply #80 on: November 06, 2005, 02:08:11 PM »

Finished one KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER and then watched another all the way through, too. The latest one, with Richard Kiel as an evil Indian spirit who could transform himself into birds and coyotes entitled "Bad Medicine" was very entertaining.

Ruth McDevitt was added to the cast four or five shows into the run as a comic foil for Darren McGavin, and she's always so entertaining to watch. Lovely lady.
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« Reply #81 on: November 06, 2005, 02:10:27 PM »

Only three episodes left of ROME, and according to Matt Roush of TV GUIDE, the next-to-last one contains a gladiator match that is jaw dropping. I guess that's next week's show.

Anyway will be recording it tonight and also EXTRAS which, I believe, is the season finale of the show tonight.
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« Reply #82 on: November 06, 2005, 02:15:44 PM »

Yesterday, I ushered for the first showing and worked concessions for the second showing of Warren Miller's "Higher Ground," that is playing at the Washington Center, here in Olympia.  I'm actually going to work concessions again today for the third show.  I signed up for all three showings because it's a heck of a lot of fun to not only watch the movie, but also the audience watching the movie!  So many of them are skiiers and when someone in the movie tries to land a jump and misses, the groans are groans of empathy...these people know what it feels like.  The main reason to usher, however, was that I also wanted to stock up on G.I. Joe (one of the sponsors) lip balm (which is the best kind that I've ever found), but they're not a sponsor of the movie this year!  I can't get my free stash of lip balm! :'(

Oh, well.  This just means that I'm finally going to have to pay for the stuff. ;)
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« Reply #83 on: November 06, 2005, 02:15:50 PM »

Well... "Quarters" and "Chandeliers" are still classics!

;)

My favorite, however, was the one based on that Jenga game - the one where you stack the pieces of wood into a tower, and then try to pull out a piece without toppling the tower.  On each piece of wood, there was an instruction (which were handwritten on the pieces by the host of the party): take a drink, drink your drink and the person's drink to your right, do not take a drink, pick someone else to take a drink, etc.  -And, then, of course, if you did happen to make the tower topple, then you had to drink everyone else;s drinks.  -I remember seeing a "legit" version of this in the stores a few years ago - but instead of making it a drinking game, you were given crazy things to do: scratch your neighbor's head, do an impression of your best friend, etc...

NOW...  Usually after playing "Drinking Jenga", then you would go onto "Dirty Jenga".  You had instructions like: kiss the person next to you, take off one piece of clothing, take off a piece of clothing from someone else... and various other instructions that aren't really suited for a family site.

 :o

 ::)

 :P

This cracks me up...I've heard of another, very, very different variation of jenga used in play therapy.  You write feeling words on each of the pieces and then discuss the feelings with the patient as you pull the pieces out.  Like I said, pretty different.
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« Reply #84 on: November 06, 2005, 02:16:28 PM »

I had a high complement paid me yesterday, one that bothered me all last night.

After my shift ended at work, der Brucer and I headed over to Cafe Zeus.  We hadn't been over there for quite some time, and Cliff, the very hunky sous chef, had commented on that fact while at my register just hours earlier.

Things were slowing down in the kitchen, so Cliff came out for a smoke (they still do that here in Delaware, I know not why) and we got to talking about the chestnuts I'd roasted in the morning.  I knew I wanted to make a gravy for the leftover turkey I was going to serve for dinner, and that said gravy would include some of the chestnuts and some mushrooms, but I wanted a suggestion for a third flavor element to go in the gravy.  Cliff told me he'd be right back, trotted to the kitchen, and returned with a copy of Dornenberg and Page's Culinary Artistry, a great reference filled with lists of food pairings.  We ended up agreeing that the best idea would be to spice the gravy with some cloves, whole and not ground since the ground would be too strong.

At about this time, chef Charles came out, and he got to joking with der Brucer about all the books I've got piled up in my "to read" stack...all either cookbooks or books about food.  This led to Charles telling us about a local woman who is planning on teaching a cooking class at her farmhouse.  It wouldn't really be a class for people to learn how to cook professionally, but more for people who want to learn to cook that well for themselves and their families.  (Think of it as a class where Susan Mayer learns how to be Bree Van de Camp.)

And then Charles turned to me and said that I could teach a class in food history, if I wanted to.  And he was serious.  Figure maybe fifteen lessons, an hour each.

Well, I was certainly flattered, but laughed it off.

Heading home, der Brucer brought it up again.  He thinks I could do it, if I wanted to.  I countered with how I don't know nearly enough to teach such a class.  He countered back with how I've never taken a junior college course, and most of the classes at that level are given by people with far less knowledge than I have.

Dinner was a success, of course.  The cloves were exactly what the gravy needed.  It was after dinner, while reading Rudolph Chelminski's The Perfectionist (about French master chef Bernard Loiseau, the Michelin rating system, and the causes of suicide) that I started to wonder about the challenge I'd been given.  

I stayed up half the night pondering what specific subjects I could teach.  An hour on Escoffier, Careme, and the rest of the Frenchmen who established haute cuisine, certainly.  Another on the spice trade changing world trade.  A third on American eating habits during the westward expansion (the Harvey Girls were real, not just something devised for a film musical).  Early American restaurants, such as Delmonico's, makes for a fourth hour.  James Beard and Julia Child.  Alice Waters.  Craig Claiborne and the birth of food porn.  How we went from street food to fast food.  

I still haven't come up with fifteen subjects.

But the more I went over my list of ideas, the more I realized what there is that I don't know.  And I can't afford to add to my stack of unread books right now.

Oh, bother.

Der B and I will probably be back over at Cafe Zeus tonight.  They're going to be showing Auntie Mame, on an eight-foot screen in their back room (with appetizers), and neither of us have seen it in a group setting.
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« Reply #85 on: November 06, 2005, 02:23:06 PM »

I've spent the afternon watching BRIDE AND PREJUDICE, which is to Miss Austen's comic novel what CLUELESS is to her novel EMMA, and it is as wonderful an adaptation as Miss Silverstone's comedy.  

DRMBarnum might call it "Bollywood Lite," but I like the cast, although the wonderful Naveen Andrews is mostly wasted; he does get a wonderful dance number, however, and I like the conversion of Mary Bennett's terrible piano artistry to a cobra dancer.  It's quite colorful and very faithful to the structure of Miss Austen's comedy of manners set within a formalized sociaety, with its rules of social behavior which Lydia flaunts in her elopement with Wickham.  

I am so looking forward to PRIDE AND PREJUDICE next weekend!
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« Reply #86 on: November 06, 2005, 02:23:29 PM »

Still catching up on the last few days of posts.  I will probably continue to be largely E&T for the remainder of the month now that I'm heading into the end of the semester.  Only 5 more classes left, but I have at least one thing due each week.  I must now go review psychotic and anxiety disorders in preparation for Tuesday's quiz.
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« Reply #87 on: November 06, 2005, 02:25:31 PM »


My favorite, however, was the one based on that Jenga game - the one where you stack the pieces of wood into a tower, and then try to pull out a piece without toppling the tower.  On each piece of wood, there was an instruction (which were handwritten on the pieces by the host of the party): take a drink, drink your drink and the person's drink to your right, do not take a drink, pick someone else to take a drink, etc.  -And, then, of course, if you did happen to make the tower topple, then you had to drink everyone else;s drinks.  -I remember seeing a "legit" version of this in the stores a few years ago - but instead of making it a drinking game, you were given crazy things to do: scratch your neighbor's head, do an impression of your best friend, etc...

NOW...  Usually after playing "Drinking Jenga", then you would go onto "Dirty Jenga".  You had instructions like: kiss the person next to you, take off one piece of clothing, take off a piece of clothing from someone else... and various other instructions that aren't really suited for a family site.

 :o

 ::)

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Jose, did we go to the same college?  We played that darn drinking Jenga and dirty Jenga all the time.  Yikes.
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« Reply #88 on: November 06, 2005, 02:27:44 PM »

I have to do laundry today, too, but I don't seem to mind it as much as Joy does.

Do you have to cart your laundry over an avenue to a crowded, ghetto laundromat where there are NEVER enough dryers, and when you take the clothes out your hands get burned?  HMMMM?????

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« Reply #89 on: November 06, 2005, 02:29:52 PM »


I still haven't come up with fifteen subjects.

But the more I went over my list of ideas, the more I realized what there is that I don't know.  And I can't afford to add to my stack of unread books right now.

Oh, bother.

Der B and I will probably be back over at Cafe Zeus tonight.  They're going to be showing Auntie Mame, on an eight-foot screen in their back room (with appetizers), and neither of us have seen it in a group setting.

DRSWoodyWhite, you have to do this series of classes!  Don't turn down the offer!  The research on what you claim you don't know will be good for you.  If it's the expense of books, well, that's why God invented libraries and the internet.  I think you're being far too modest: your culinary knowledge terrifies me, and this series of classes might be the start of something professional.

I'm jealous I can't join you for AUNTIE MAME.  I love the movie.
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